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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1976-12-02

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-12-02, page 01

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VOL. 54 NO. 50
DECEMBER 2,1976- KISLEV 10,5737
Seek To Soften Am. Sentiment
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Premier Yitzhak Rabin has urged Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to hold direct talks with him on a Middle East peace settlement. Directing his remarks to Sadat, Rabin declared: "I have heard what you have had to say to others. Now - what do you have to say to us? You have explained your willingness to make peace with American sena¬ tors, congressmen and other visitors. You have talked about peace with NBC, CBS and ABC. If you are serious about peace let us negotiate. Please let me hear from you."
UNITED NATIONS. (WNS) - The report by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights.of the Palestinian People which calls for Israel to evacu¬ ate all occupied territory by June 1,1977 was approved Ijy the General Assembly Nov. 24 by a 90-16 vote with 30 abstentions. The report by the 20-member committee also recommends allowing Palestinian refugees to re¬ turn to their former homes or to be compensated for loss of property and urges the creation of a Palestinian State under the aegis of the Palestine Liberation Or¬ ganization. The General Assembly resolution urged the Security Council to act as soon as possible to imple¬ ment the recommendations. The Council earlier this year rejected the report when the United States vetoed it.
'■ LONDON (WNS) — Members of a congressional' ' watchdog committee that recently visited Yugoslavia_ , and 17 non-Communist European countries, said in,a. press conference here Nov. 23 that the Helsinki'accord was beginning to have a productive, though still limited effect on the improvement of East-West re¬ lations. However,' the congressmen who were refused permission to visit the Soviet Union and its satellites, -."saifjj that while practices in some countries have be- conie^cao^e-Jenient^-proceduresfor- emigration-lp-re- - -unite divided families have not markedly changed*
2 PLO Officials Meet With Groups Of Jews
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (JTA). - The two Palestine Liberation Organization offi¬ cials who came to the United States ostensibly to open a propaganda office in Wash¬ ington met with small groups'of Jews in New York and Washington this month and sought to give an im¬ pression that the terrorist or¬ ganization is moderating its view toward Israel. -
The officials — Sabri Jiryis and Issa Satawi, both Palestinians — first met with seven or eight-Jews at a New York hotel at the invi¬ tation of the Arabs. About a week later, on Nov. 15, the pair lunched with five other Jews at the invitation of Tartt Bell, director of the American ..Friends Service Committee's Washington public affairs program, at the Committee's quarters.
Those invited to the two gatherings were mainly offi¬ cials,-some of high rank, of major J.ewjsh organizations, but several emphasized to
individuals and not as repre¬ sentatives of their organi¬ zations. PLO officials had met previously in Paris with 'non-official but politically active Israelis.
Bell declined to go into de¬ tails about the meeting or to
identify those present. He said he was "delighted to hear signals of change in the position of the PLO," which he described as being aimed at a two-state solution and acceptance of a "secure Israel."
Prominent Education Advisor To Visit Columbus Next Week
-Dr. .George Pollak, national consultant on Jew¬ ish education, will visit Columbus during December
~7-8, announced Melvin Schot¬ tenstein, chairman of The Jewish Education Commit¬ tee (JEC)-CJF.
Dr. Pollak, director of the Department of Community Services of The American Association for Jewish Edu¬ cation, will visit The Colunv bus-Hebrew School and The Columbus Torah Academy, and will meet with members and leadership of the Jewish
' Education Committee and
Federation Board Members To Review Issues And Problems Of Local Community At Institute
The Columbus Jewish Federation will hold an insti¬ tute for the members of its Board of Trustees on Sun¬ day, Dec. Ej^A planning com- ' mittee consisting of four past presidents of the Federation — Sidney I. Blatt, Marvin L. Glassman, Norman Meizlish; and Edward Schlezinger' — has met several times to plan the pro¬ gram, and has developed a program which will make it possible for members of the board to review all of the " concerns of the Federation and its agencies during the coming year.
Judy Swedlow,—chairwo- i man of-the 1977 United Jew- ,
ish Fund campai&n Planned Foir Sunday
Women's Division, will de- *
liver the opening pre- Night, December 0
sentation on "The Profile of ° '
the Columbus " Jewis/h Federation on matters relat: --^e-^ewJ3lr~^le1j!ra^^ Agency that they attended as for Jewish education.
— ; Having knowledge of
Columbus from previous visits, Dr. Pollak will also participate in a special JEC dinner-meeting which will be held on December S, at 6:30 p.m., at the Columbus Torah Academy. Members of the boards of The Columbus He¬ brew School and The Colum¬ bus Torah Academy will also participate in this special dinner-meeting.
At its dinner-meeting, The JEC will consider a plan for conducting a survey- on the Jewish child population in Columbus and will hear a re-
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JFS Annual Meeting
the Jewish Community." Mrs. Swedlow Was chairwo¬ man of the Federation's Priorities Committee, which devoted several years to a study of the Columbus Jew¬ ish community and its needs. Leslie Wexner, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federation, will speak on "Building Tomorrow's Jew¬ ish ■ Community" while Sidney I. Blatt, a Federation past president, will speak on "The Needs and Plans for Physical Facilities."
The 68th annual meeting of Jewish Family Service "will take place on Sunday even¬ ing, Dec. 5 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cheses, 272 N.-Drexel Ave. The guest speaker will be Carl-Glick, president of HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).
Mr. Glick will speak on the current state of Soviet Jew¬ ish resettlement in the U.S. and the general world pic¬ ture of Soviet • Jewish emigres.
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The members of the board will be divided into four 'groups, which will meet con¬ currently, during the morn- • ing to discuss the present concerns and priorities of the Federation and its ' agencies. Myer Meliman, vice-president of the CJF, will serve as chairman of the session on "Services for the Jewish Family". Partici¬ pating, with Mr. - Meliman,. will be Leah Godofsky, presi¬ dent-elect of the Jewish Family Service; Dr. James Tennenbaum, president of the Columbus Jewish Center; and J. Maynard Kaplan, president of Herit¬ age House. Serving as con¬ sultants for this session will be Peter Glick, director of the Jewish Family Service, Mayer Rosenfeld, director of the Columbus Jewish Center, Gerald.Cohn, direc¬ tor of Heritage House,, and Dan Flax. Federation administrative assistant. ' Irving Baker, a member of the Federation Board > of Trustees, will serve as chair¬ man of the session on Jewish education.' Dr. William , Gilbert,' president of the Columbus Hebrew School, and Alvin Shames, president of the .Columbus Torah Academy, will participate in
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, Dr. George Pollak ■ port ojj.th.e„p£QROsed-comr.
" muhity high school. The-re¬ port contains data on na¬ tional trends and infor¬ mation on existing Jewish high school, programs and
' enrollment in Columbus.
Highlights of the report in- clude( 1) Nationally, Jewish .high school enrollment has increased in the last 15. years by 76% and accounts for 20% of the total enrollment. 2) There is an increasing trend toward inter-congregational or community high school programs ( a dozen such co-: operative programs have been, established - in recent years). 3) A total of 192 stu-
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Annual Shabbaton To Be This Weekend
Mr. Norman Brody, chair¬ man of the youth group at Beth Jacob announced that this weekend the congre¬ gation will host numerous teenagers from the tri-state region'of the N.C-.S.Y. youth chapters.. Beginning with lighting of the candles on Friday night and concluding with Sunday morning break¬ fast, the large contingent of teenagers will spend 24 hours in a "living experience of the Sabbath".
The Beth Jacob Youth Group has been a pioneer award winning chapter from Yeshiva University Youth Department and N.C.S.Y.' and has attracted national attention for its many pro¬ grams. This coming week¬ end under the leadership of - Rabbi David Stavsky, who < initiated ' the program 19 . years,, ago, a staff of- very
qualified youth leaders' and advisors will participate in the event.
r The Saturday night Kumzits session will be high¬ lighted by a tribute and fare¬ well to Miss Lori Greenberg, who this past year has acted
- as youth advisor and will be taking up residence shortly in the Washington D.C. area. . Miss Greenberg* has literally risen through the ranks of the Beth Jacob
'Youth Group - as chapter president; as teenager of the year, a coveted award pre-'
• sented to her" both on the regional and national level; regional vice-president and then national officer of N.C.S.Y. Miss Greenberg
. studied at Stern College for women of Yeshiva Univer¬ sity ahd is now completing her studies at OSU. She has
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The signals, he said, came from "newspapers and else- . where." He also said the sig¬ nals represented the position the two PLO officials "are taking." .
Since U.S. policy is not to have official contacts with the PLO, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, and the Israeli government has vowed never to have deal¬ ings with it regardless of any change it might make in its public position, Jews avail¬ able for interviews with JTA were aked why they decided to meet with the PLO of¬ ficials.
"It was useful for us to hear what they had to say and to tell them what we think," one replied. Another commented that -since the Friends Committee issued the invitation, it was courteous to accept and not reject out of hand an attempt at a conciliatory approach. The Committee is strongly in favor of. a Palestinian state and has often criticized .Israel. ~ At the_ Washington meet¬ ing. JTA was told, the PLO , officials not only did not -
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Robert K. Levy Sr., Union Co. Exec. Dies
Robert K. Levy Sr., of 584 S. Keilner Rd., died Satur¬ day, Nov. 27 at Grant Hospi¬ tal, following a stroke.
Levy, age 82, was formerly chairman of the board of the - Union Co. and was known for his Columbus civic en-„ deavors. He put his talents and energy into his love for - Columbus, serving on dozens of community organizations.
His special interest in the Downtown area was-shown by his' action as the first chairman of. the Downtown Area Committeeand his idea of flags being placed along the Downtown riverfront as well as the riverfront amphi- - theater dedicated in his " name/
Levy had served the Union Co., for 61 years. His father, Sol, started the original store at Long and High Sts. He be¬ came president of the com¬ pany in 1938 and was elected chairman of the board in 1961. -t
Working his way up from the store's basement receiv¬ ing and marketing room, Levy also had served as a buyer for every department ' in the store.
In 1966, Levy turned the -position of chairman of the board over-, to his brother, Herbert. In turn, Levy be¬ came vice-president for pub-
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, Dr. George Pollak ■ port ojj.th.e„p£QROsed-comr.
" muhity high school. The-re¬ port contains data on na¬ tional trends and infor¬ mation on existing Jewish high school, programs and
' enrollment in Columbus.
Highlights of the report in- clude( 1) Nationally, Jewish .high school enrollment has increased in the last 15. years by 76% and accounts for 20% of the total enrollment. 2) There is an increasing trend toward inter-congregational or community high school programs ( a dozen such co-: operative programs have been, established - in recent years). 3) A total of 192 stu-
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Annual Shabbaton To Be This Weekend
Mr. Norman Brody, chair¬ man of the youth group at Beth Jacob announced that this weekend the congre¬ gation will host numerous teenagers from the tri-state region'of the N.C-.S.Y. youth chapters.. Beginning with lighting of the candles on Friday night and concluding with Sunday morning break¬ fast, the large contingent of teenagers will spend 24 hours in a "living experience of the Sabbath".
The Beth Jacob Youth Group has been a pioneer award winning chapter from Yeshiva University Youth Department and N.C.S.Y.' and has attracted national attention for its many pro¬ grams. This coming week¬ end under the leadership of - Rabbi David Stavsky, who < initiated ' the program 19 . years,, ago, a staff of- very
qualified youth leaders' and advisors will participate in the event.
r The Saturday night Kumzits session will be high¬ lighted by a tribute and fare¬ well to Miss Lori Greenberg, who this past year has acted
- as youth advisor and will be taking up residence shortly in the Washington D.C. area. . Miss Greenberg* has literally risen through the ranks of the Beth Jacob
'Youth Group - as chapter president; as teenager of the year, a coveted award pre-'
• sented to her" both on the regional and national level; regional vice-president and then national officer of N.C.S.Y. Miss Greenberg
. studied at Stern College for women of Yeshiva Univer¬ sity ahd is now completing her studies at OSU. She has
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The signals, he said, came from "newspapers and else- . where." He also said the sig¬ nals represented the position the two PLO officials "are taking." .
Since U.S. policy is not to have official contacts with the PLO, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, and the Israeli government has vowed never to have deal¬ ings with it regardless of any change it might make in its public position, Jews avail¬ able for interviews with JTA were aked why they decided to meet with the PLO of¬ ficials.
"It was useful for us to hear what they had to say and to tell them what we think," one replied. Another commented that -since the Friends Committee issued the invitation, it was courteous to accept and not reject out of hand an attempt at a conciliatory approach. The Committee is strongly in favor of. a Palestinian state and has often criticized .Israel. ~ At the_ Washington meet¬ ing. JTA was told, the PLO , officials not only did not -
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Robert K. Levy Sr., Union Co. Exec. Dies
Robert K. Levy Sr., of 584 S. Keilner Rd., died Satur¬ day, Nov. 27 at Grant Hospi¬ tal, following a stroke.
Levy, age 82, was formerly chairman of the board of the - Union Co. and was known for his Columbus civic en-„ deavors. He put his talents and energy into his love for - Columbus, serving on dozens of community organizations.
His special interest in the Downtown area was-shown by his' action as the first chairman of. the Downtown Area Committeeand his idea of flags being placed along the Downtown riverfront as well as the riverfront amphi- - theater dedicated in his " name/
Levy had served the Union Co., for 61 years. His father, Sol, started the original store at Long and High Sts. He be¬ came president of the com¬ pany in 1938 and was elected chairman of the board in 1961. -t
Working his way up from the store's basement receiv¬ ing and marketing room, Levy also had served as a buyer for every department ' in the store.
In 1966, Levy turned the -position of chairman of the board over-, to his brother, Herbert. In turn, Levy be¬ came vice-president for pub-
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